This afternoon I was at MPEA off Trotter Rd. There were several thrushes about 50 yards downriver from Red Stop #11.
I stopped to look at a Gray-cheeked Thrush. Eventually I saw 3 GCTH in the same tree. Then I saw another thrush that started singing. The first thoughts that went through my mind were Veery, then Hermit Thrush, then neither. This thrush looked smaller than the nearby GCTH and had a somewhat reddish tail but its song was like a GCTH. All of the GCTH had some dark on their lower mandibles. The probable Bicknell's lower mandible was orange/yellow. By its song I knew that it was a GCTH/BITH. Based on that and the field marks I mentioned above, I believe it to be a Bicknell's Thrush. One other thing, when it sang it lowered its wings below its body but did not bob its tail.
I turned on the video on my cell phone and hopefully got some of its song.
Earlier in the day we had an Olive-sided Flycatcher at a private residence. It departed and would not have been chasable.
-- Joe Hanfman Columbia, MD
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